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The Southern Ilunois Record
A Good Newspaper is a Power in the Home. School, State and Nation
VOLUME VII.
FLORA. ILLINOIS. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1919
NUMBER 22
Bran $48.00 per Ton. Rex Nidds $S2.00 Per Ton. King
Midas Flour $11.00 Per Bbl.
JAY VALBERT COMPANY
MY COUNTY
IN THE WAR
/here Our Soldier Boys Are and in What Service They Are Engated.
The following Is a continuation of Ithe list of the enlisted men of this county, still In military service, or Inustered out and returned home:
Lloyd C. McCully, age 24, son of
Ijeo. (), and Minerva McCully, Flora,
Snllsted atOlney: In Field Artillery
l,nd stationed In Luxemburg; pro-
[noted to corporal; trained at Camp
liogan, Texas.
.lames W. I'errlne, age "29, son of
I'dlin Perrlne, Klora route. Enlisted it Flora; in mounted cavalry and sta- .ioned at Mayence, Germany; trained .t Jacksonville, Florida.
Virgil D. Smith, son of Mrs. Carrie limith, Flora route. Enlisted at Flora; |n infantry: trained at Gettysburg, -•a., and promoted corporal; killed
1)ct, 9, 1918, in the Argonne battle in France. Rolla Pearce, age '24, son of Mr. Ind Mrs. Fred Pearce, Flora; in motor |ransport company, 270, at Camp ^aylor, Ky,; promoted sergeant. Earl Raymond Nash, age22, son of IJ, F. and Mary Nash, Flora. En¬ listed at Flora; In Co. E, r24th infan- Iry; now stationed at Camp Mills, |)Jew York; trained at Camp Wlieeler, i^a. In hospital with rheumatism.
W. F. Pritchett, age30, son of .lohn fnd Isabel Pritchett, Xenia, Enlisted It St. Louis In njarine service; sta- Jloned in France Oct. 19; trained at Jiuantlco, Va, Mother died Nov, 12, 1)18,
William Bateman Kenley, age '29, jjn of A, S. and Ariia Kenley, Clay lity: was with depot brigade; muster- jl out and now at lion>e; trained at Camp Taylor, Ivy., and promoted cor- Kural.
, George O. Crabtree, age 29, son of
Blr. and Mrs. C. S. Crabtree, Flora
iute. p;nllstedat Flora; in infantry,
J)M Field Signal Corps, in Franee;
¦i-alned at Camp Taylor and Pike.
Leslie N. Jones, age20, son of Robt. t.nd Delia Jones, Chicago. Knilsted Flora; in machine gun batalllon. jiec, 10, at Le Mans, France; trained ^1. Camp Logan, Tex., and promoted corporal.
I Lawrence E. Travis, age 20. son of
H'illlam and Mlna Travis, Clay City
iiite, p:n!lsled at Flora; in the ma-
l^ne service; stationed at Quantico,
11,, Jan, 9; trained at Paris Island,
C.
(Chester V. Green, age 20, son of
Maud Morris, Xenla. Enlisted
lolney in Co. L, laotli Infantry;
'•atiuiied In Luxemburg, Jan. 12;
.lined at Camp' Logan, Tex,, and
.iiioted sergeant,
Leonard Nell Case, age 2;!. son of
1|.iiion and Florence A. Case, Flora." iiillsted at Flora; in Co. E, 2d corps iiliool detachment; now stationed at iatillon-sur-.Seine, France; trained || Camp Gordon, Ga. i;Ros